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Approximate run time: 30 minutes
the Head of Fiction
Filled with show-biz gossip and told with verve
and illustrations of Florence White Williams
A full-size poster is also included
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson Architectural Buildings Approximate run time: 30 minutesA heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself was regarded by his contemporaries as a man of no judgment and condemned by posterity as a lecher and a drunk. How could such a fool have written such a book? Boswell's "presumptuous task" was